Galopagos...The Second time

0:02 Hello and welcome back to another episode of a record of my father. Today we're going to be doing us a little different. We're going to figure it out, this video recording device and we're going to be doing an episode on the Galapagos place. We went in May and in May about 13 years ago as well. So it's gonna be an interesting walk back through time. What do you what do you think about her experience? Is there two years? Yeah, and I dressed, you know, I got my, I got my summer tie on for the, you're so shy. Okay. I think it's, it just sort of different and we're shooting it and our amazing studio here at Burbank, 60, 60 9, which is, this is your bedroom, isn't it? Yeah, I better is that but all that being said, yeah, it's kind of exciting because it allows us to overcome a number of different things.

0:56 Zach is going off. To La soon and it's going to call in and we're going to start doing these remotely. So it'll be a whole new game was going to be kind of cool but be that as it may things will continue, we will continue to march on. I will change my t-shirt at least every other day and if that barely that right, barely that. So what we want to do is talk a little bit about Galapagos and about our history glob goes and It's like when I mean, I mean, I think about it and it's like to me it was it's one of those things that you go see because it's I mean, what's what's so grabby about it, when you think about Galapagos is it is it because it's sort of represents prehistoric. Is that?

1:46 Yeah, that will Charles Darwin. I think is. Yeah. The number old or a bruise on his face discovered. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess it, you know, it kind of hits the religious cult pretty hard but No, because of the progression of evolution how it is used to prove that. But other than that, you know, I mean, you see a wild group of animals, you know, amphibians we swam with the seals, which was so we did this trip. I mean, the differences are this trip. We did we do on a boat on Silver sea ship, and we went to about was at nine. I think nine different Islands within the group.

2:27 Yeah. And seven days, seven eight days right? And we would we would eat in the morning we would get up and we would I mean we have breakfast in the cabin is pretty wild and then we would jump go we would either kayak we will go snorkeling or we would hike an island. And we would see a new variety of bird or a repeat of certain Birds. We saw the frigatebirds the ones with a big big giant red sacs that blow up. We saw Albatross, which I don't think, Think I've ever seen an albatross or frigatebird Albatross. They do his dance, where they have their arms held up like this and they and against around when they're when they're mating and we got to see that, you know, which is sort of a little weird to be in the birds bedroom. But you know, what the heck, anyway. And then we saw tons.

3:14 I think this time around, we saw a bunch of blue footed boobies. We saw them sitting on their nests which we can see. The last time we saw them, we saw them in the Waterfront and 2010 in front of the Search Museum. They were all along the water there. I remember that but I never saw we went to the island. I don't think we saw them there, we saw on the island, in 2010 was, oh my gosh, a bazillion iguanas. That's what we saw. A lot of. Are you remember where those were under? Your I think is that the Charles Darwin Reserve or something like that, that we went to the Charles Darwin Museum and then we went to an offshoot. We hopped in kayaks, they're doing years ago. Yeah, somewhere around there.

3:55 And then we went we went to an inlet and that was the cool story. Remember, we went to the inlet and you and I there's like four of us in a kayak. We're all in kayaks and you, and I jump out in the water and we're kind of in a little Cove. And then Oh yeah, it happens. Is we look down and there's like these these logs in there like 6 feet, 8 feet, 10 feet long, moving laying about 15 feet down. You could see the bottom which can't see him real clearly. And I looked up and I said to the our guide, I said, hey, what are those? And he goes, oh, those are sharks and and we just like bolted for The Kayaks and we jumped on The Kayaks and what up over this. I remember that.

4:39 Anyways, Like freeze on. Oh, don't worry about they, what they won't bother yet? Every time I hear that I always get worried when someone else is telling me that something's not going to eat me. But you know, who knows how you piss some animal off for, you know, or or fishy bird or whatever the hell you call a shark, you know, what happened on them? I would say does not make them tea laughs. Well you think we were a model to avoid that as well. So that was pretty good but then even before that we were in the the Amazon portion of egg. Yeah. And the Amazon, we went to the Amazon exits. Mmm. Whitewater, rafting and things like that. It was a resort and that was pretty cool. That was pretty good. They got sharp caterpillars there. They got really sharp freaking caterpillars. I remember that put my hands on one who's like on the railing. Just like grab it.

5:25 Oh my God. That was gonna die because my whole hand went numb, I don't know what it was going on here and then was fine. And like do I just wait to scream though initially? Yeah, but my hand was numb for two and a half hours so I'm like that's crazy. Where we was that. You sure that was there or was that believe? Yeah, I'm positive. I'm positive. I'll sit there as their. Oh, that's where. And is that we solve a shaman Belize was in Anderson? Yeah, that was where we saw the shaman. Dude. Lee's was on a shaman. This marble Reds here, right? This is where we saw. Soak the we went out to the point where I'm trying to remember all the different things that we did, which one What about the point when you held the the snake? Yeah, that was also the Amazon basin. The Amazon basin was half of it.

6:14 I would say it was like over half of it because you had you that's when they put the big. I this day I realized how stupid I was, but the guy comes up and he's holding this. Maybe 14 foot long boa constrictor, this is the Amazon basin is the. It was an REI trip. They don't do International and, or our trips anymore. But they did then and it was it was really good, they don't do it. What's it around your shoulders from? It was basically touching the round on one side up around. Yeah. On his side and it's like, That was so dumb and he was covered in water too. Yeah. Like he had been swimming and only, huh? Yeah, looking back. And they were all swimming. We're they were the, were the rivers connected and there.

6:56 That was the place where 20 feet offshore kids drowned. Yeah, other week, somebody drowned and you were just like, well, why do you continue to come here? And it's like, it's because it's the best place to sleep. It was a park and was a swimming area where looks like a lot of people keep going to the Potomac, right? One of people. Yeah. On their good will drown every year. We saw somebody go under and they brought a kid out when we were there and then I remember the other was the was on the tour to him over there. Yeah, yeah, there are monk at the remember the monkey in the tree was grabbing people's hats and stuff if you get some of these cameras over there yeah I took somebody's camera. Somebody was taking pictures and they're taking big pictures and the monkeys would come down of these huge trees and lean down and just grab whatever you had in run to the top of the tree. And it took the guys camera, the guys, Just like all freaked out. It's like, well, it's gone.

7:47 You know, you can sit there and Fred all you want. You're not going to climb the trees or 200 feet high. Maybe not sway under 100 has like 30 20, some like that, they weren't that, I will, they would know they were huge open wide width, wise, not height-wise. Yeah, they weren't that high because it was in the middle of a stream, right? And they were, they were pretty young trees. From what I remember is like Yeah, at all is probably the one that took the camera though because he ran it up to the top and I remember that being high but that's, you know, nah there. Yeah. But in a good eye, makeup more stuff than you do. And do you also think 62? So I don't know. There's also, I'm also what not stopping to think you're taller than you are.

8:33 Thank you. Yeah, but this time though, this may we went for my birthday. I was really cool. I got spend my birthday on a boat. Which was different. I've never spent my birthday on a bone. Never wanted to spend my birthday on a boat, but I would have to say this was, this was quite the experience. This was the best move that I can spend my birthday on. Yeah, exactly. But definitely a little different. It was then the first time this is less adventurous more. It was worth every astounding away asked. I would say what he used to do. Yeah. Because get loaded and sit and the Sahara.

9:13 Yeah. Yeah. We got loaded inside on the boat. I mean, the coolest thing was we closed down the bar at 1:00. Maybe 12. Now, they were always open to, like, 32 33 or late. Yeah, I don't remember the times because we were, we were having joyous Ruckus, fun time traveling. And then we would, we would, as long as we put the menu on the door, hung it on the handle. Like what you wanted, value breakfast, and every morning at like 6:30, we have that. And then in that would get us, that would spur us to go out on the morning kayak which started at like 75 rate o'clock 5:30. No. It's one that early wakeup was at five.

9:53 Yeah. And then we had to go out 538 would come? Yeah, that was great. And I remember one day, you improperly filled out the form and you wrote about it, somebody else somebody number and I think it was the earliest day of like, Course it one. Yeah, it was for 45 and then I heard a woman talk a lot about who is this Phil Brown? Who is this? Phil Brown that if it's signed my room number to be when I put the rod? I mean, I scribbled it in which it was look like a 6 and it was supposed to be a, yeah, I forgot what it was. It was just it was, it wasn't. I wasn't trying to be, but but in the interim it's a CO flea.

10:34 She doesn't listen to this honest Outlet, if you're out there, yeah. Yeah. Please contact us at a record of. Yeah, father.com and my kid apologizes for I apologized. Yeah. I almost did and then I was like, you know what, like we're good. Yeah, that's not gonna get you, you there's it's there, you know? So but then you're labeled then she knows who you are. If you're just a mystery man, even then you're fine, get away with it, you don't really exist, you know, you never hears in the in the shadow realm, of course. So what else do you measure? I think. I'm always saying to like the the economics of it, this more current trip would have cost roughly four times what the original trip cost about. I was trying to figure out a luxury. It's allows your yeah.

11:23 It was its luxury. I'll start for that but you said the REI tour was they don't do International tours anymore, I stopped doing it out. Really stop. What was just a pandemic. I guess there's just not. I you know, I don't know because I went back and I looked and I said I did another one where I did. Thought I'd still Piney and Fitzroy and you land in Chilton, Charlton. I think it is and you climb, you don't actually climb Fitzroy. You've got climbed to Fitzroy, which is up in the mountains, and it's a beautiful place and Argentina and then you crossed GLA. So we thought I still find. He isn't just a wee.

12:04 I like to W, which is very interested to look right at that. See it, will they still Domestic travel, right? Well yeah, you what you do now is you want to go to those two places? You would just, you would look up the people that do the tours that do the blog. It was grueling, but it was, it was wonderful. Yeah, okay, I see what you mean. Yeah, we mentioned some of the animals we saw, we're getting away from talking about of the things, some of the animals we saw. We saw the frigate Birds, we saw the albatross, we set, the albatross is, did the dance? Did I mention the weather fighting Each other with their beaks be gone because that was the coolest thing. You know, it would watching them take off and and I mean you reminded me of an old Like Bugs Bunny thing where they were they are a pterodactyl taken off on Fred Flintstone when they did the old airplanes because they ran and they needed.

12:56 Like, but 20 yards, they couldn't just pop up in the air. They had to run and then fly and they were on cliffs and they'd flow off the cliffs and go down. And it made me think of Fred Flintstone like when they went in an airplane there. See the pterodactyl and are pterodactyl runs and then sort of floats off. That's because there's they are big big another. They're a lot bigger than I thought they were not as big as they are. What is the biggest land bird? What is that thing called? An osprey? Condor Condor. There we go. Yeah, there's like so one of the Condor. Yeah she liked but they're meeting their meteor guys. Yeah. Yeah. Really big. The other guys, but their eggs to our gigantic looks like almost like an ostrich egg. So yeah, this big Oh wow.

13:39 Big, yeah, good. I mean, that's like I mean, they're, you know, they're four feet 3, 3 to 4 feet. Yeah. Like wingspan Days of our head probably had. I saw one at about 100 meters on the edge of the cliff side that when we were in Chile and we were going to thought I still Piney, that was on the way is really cool. I think I had pictures of it. I have to look them up from 12 15 years. Well we saw like 20 of them on that one. And that was just covered in. Bird Guana? We talk while we saw Condors? No knock on doors. The arguing. Condors not the other guys.

14:20 Yeah. Okay, gotcha. Yes. I want to know. It doesn't really matter. What it's like, is this episodes about the Galapagos, but some blue footed boobies. Enemy differences, we saw blue footed boobies in the Texas wild. Well, we saw we saw their eggs when we were hiking through sitting on nests, whereas when we went with REI they were just right all along the shoreline right by the. Would you call it? The Darwin research Museum we went we went into that and in REI we did not do it here. I Really like going in and seeing the scientific Museum walking around in there. I was kind of saddened by, you know, they had the tortoise, they have the facility there, and they would let people walk through where, the two were. The tortoises were.

15:08 Yeah. Everybody. 10. I don't know if they block that off because they shouldn't let him walk in there. Because, yeah, people were climbing on the tortoises and taking pictures. And the Rangers are like, you shouldn't do that. I'm thinking like you should hit that kid with a bat, you know. And it's like I was a little bit on the mean side and thinking like that, Horrible. It was because when you introduced human disease to animals, you will kill them. And it's like whatever the avian flu of turtles is I am and yeah, it was being spread all around that facility will once more, the older tables and yeah, I mean, all sorts of silly crap. I mean, it was really corner of it was like, frustrating that you would see that, that would go on, and I'm hoping that they changed it. We didn't get to go there this time, we went to many more remote place.

15:53 Aces, you know, that were remote places, but then we went to the coffee facility where they tried to Hawk their coffee at us, and that was cool. Yeah, that was for, you always need one of the, if you're going on a cruise ship your, you better expect to go to some sort of Hawking event. I don't know. You got to expect that at least 125 of. Yeah, I don't know. Depending on the cruise with a made-up. The food was really good, you know? Yeah. And I think I'm a so I think when we were at ridiculous, REI we bought our own food. Yeah, you know, well, they did it with your friends but it's like, yeah. Bought it. Yeah. Yeah. Because it was actually like backpacking, ask kind of deal. Yeah. But this one we met Carlos, which was freaking awesome. And then, two months at Harlan, 1.3 came and stayed with us for, for two weeks, and I crazy.

16:40 Yeah. And then second Merchant Marine captain of the boat. We became pretty good friends with and then spent two weeks with him here, the you have we meet him. How do we meet him in a super like anything? A good relationship starts and now he was going off duty. He was going off duty and he was worried about us. Oh yeah, because we were up there and we're gonna close down bum. We'd found this new like six other people. Yeah, we had this that we found this new liquor called brown owl and we were being Browns. Had. Yeah. Fly and so we did. And they were he was worried because he said I'm going off duty and no one's going to be watching you.

17:21 Yeah, I remember that. well, you know, we he goes off duty and then he comes over and starts with us and then I think that was the only morning that we didn't make the kayaks the next. Yeah, that was the only morning. It was because we were we were up so I got of I rolled over. I said that it was like 4:00 a.m. we liked each other and were like tomorrow's. Yeah, the kayaking so lackadaisical to I don't really I didn't see it yet purpose behind it. Yeah, other than the snorkeling know that, I remember the seals used to come up to you. Oh, that was so great here. Right swimming. Because they'd swim in, To your face down, link to your body, through your legs and then back around. Okay, over there, mr.

18:10 Water man. Hmm. The eskimo kiss? Yeah, they would try to ask Emma, kiss you. And that was those pretty sensual was a nice experience. Well, that was the thing. I noticed this time around, we were we kayaked with the seals to last time we jumped in and we swam around a little bit with them but not yeah, one or two here. I mean we took So, we took the zodiacs to multiple wrote Islands were literally had to step over them, because they're every, yeah, you're like, don't get too close to the seals and it's like, how do you go up the shoreline? There's, this one guy on the seal. You gotta kind of like, walk around a little fat guys, and they're like, and the one thing they told us in the one, you know, was just don't, don't get between them and their young, you know. Yeah, well there's one in some guys, stepped over it. And mr.

19:01 Steele man did not like that. He didn't he got up and the guys were yelling at the the touristy. But like, why would you step over you like to somebody step over you when you go to sleep? No, I mean, if the thing is, they were all over the paths. That's fair. So it even hand when you say the path, like I'm not saying that like in the woods, you can go off to the left here I am. But but on the Galapagos it's literally molten rock to the left and the right and Like three feet high and it's razor-sharp if you touch it. So you can't like go off the path. It's not, it's not like something you can do, you know. Exactly. So when people say well why didn't you just go off the path?

19:42 That's like because I didn't want to bleed, you know, and there is no easy way around it, but it's true. Yeah but I mean, it was very very very cool. Yeah. I think the water see that the weather was a lot better this time, we got this time around with that very little Last one because we couldn't really do anything the last time because the waves were just so so there's like ten foot swells or something for everybody got sick. And yeah because everybody is swollen the sea water because they were getting seawater in the snorkel. Yeah. And I gots I drank like like four cups of C1 or there. I'm done. How they're gonna take me on. I'm good. Yeah, I don't need it. I don't need to do this nonsense snorkeling anymore.

20:23 Yeah. Well, this youngster goes fan. That is what do we do? We did the The first time I was thinking about, remember, being on the cabin, cruiser going from one Island to another, and it was like six foot, swells more like 35 foot boat, and that doesn't sound like that much, but they are breaking over the front and as, yeah. You know, when you're in, you're in the back, you know, and I didn't care. I'm not a, it's she sick, doesn't bother me. My wife's just hurl and everywhere. Our guy is laying down and he's curled up in a fetal position. Just looking funny, you know, you you had gotten sick days earlier.

21:04 I was fine on the boat, the boat didn't. I know there may be the cool that we surprised. You got car sick and we went to this. This is a like a healthcare story went to this hot springs up in the Amazon basin. Is your up, you go up into the Andes and it's just wicked. Cool. And we pull off into one of these places and they take us in. We hop in the hot water steaming, it's a little bit. I mean, it's like a really, really really really He tiny blue lagoon, you know? Because it's beautiful, but it's small anti-freeze, I remember that. But I got to end got there. And yes, there is a dog and he won't kind definitely in a parasite and he's like, I got this, and the guy looks at him. The doctor we go in there and they have a doctor in the hotel.

21:46 And the doctor looks at you and goes his. All this is what I knew it because you hate shots and he goes, I give you pills, you'll be. You take these pills to a day for, you know, blah blah blah, you be okay. Well as for the entire vacation it was like But you can take these materials for the whole shot and you'll probably be okay in about 20 minutes. No. They are, you really give me a shot and I was like whoa, my kid asked for a shot, you know, he was 10. So what the heck? Why was sick upon arrival to? Yeah. Because I had never really been above, I don't know, Virginia level of altitude. I don't? Yeah it was. I was like, damn, they are there was all sorts of things because it would we started in the valley and we drove up to this is the top of the mountains and you were in the back of the van. You know.

22:29 Yeah, it wasn't down by the river, but any of the other kid to whatever his name was, it was like Max or something. Was like y'all. So everybody was not doing well, no matter how much Dramamine you took you were. You were not going to feel great on that. Yeah, I'm be rocky road. I'm like that's a thing that I'm luck, you know. That's the key. You gotta. You gotta do it. You gotta. But you remember when was Rocky Roads? Those were bad, but we got there. And then we came back to the water was so rough that we hopped on a little tiny Jet and it was the four of us sitting. The Jet. And that was, that was such a cool thing to come back to the mainland. We came back to Mainland Quito and then we went home. That's what we did with the REI here we assoc. Yeah, yeah.

23:10 No, yeah, yeah. Very, very different. We ended up going back to. We didn't go back to Quito. We had rough Seas. We finish the tour. We went to the coffee Hawker, e. We saw a research station, but nothing like Darwin, and then we Back and it was really rough Seas. Where were like Fallout of the bunk? I think I fell out of the bunk. I ended up with a lot of bruises and stuff and we can't quite remember that all this happened. And we head back to the mainland and what is the name of the place Guayaquil? Yeah. Yeah I get it I still can't say egg white, white Keel that of ignorance. Yeah, but yeah, we went there was white.

23:52 There you go. Wow I can't like I see the thing is I've been seeing some Kwame Everything, the book, but we went there. And that's the one in the South. That's where What's his name Carlos? Yeah, that's where he's from. It's more North. Actually, it's far more Northeast. We came through there. We got stuck there because that's when Miami was having all those huge thunderstorms and everything shut down. All the airports shut down. So we got stuck there for a day and a half two days, right? Yeah, I didn't. It's the was it the Miami was being shut down or was it Miami was shut down? It wasn't the covid thing. No, it was East Coast. Miami, on the boat. It was a it was a huge amount of thunderstorms that happen. May and that shut everything down and Miami being shut down. Shut us.

24:39 Yeah, they have one requite at like something to am too. Yeah. We had a one-on-one fight, all day. We get on one. We be at Miami at 7:30 in the morning. And we take a 9:30 to 11:00 to get back to DC and those are rough flight. We did that same thing. Coming back from Galapagos, but we came back from Gaia queel Guayaquil. There you go. Close enough, why? But um, I remember On the way back to I got it. Lucky. I had a 65 like, 250, dude. Next to me and like your shoulders are just touching the whole time. And then I'll just like about tell him to put his head on my shoulder but like maybe that's weird. Huh? But I buffed it out. Buffed it out. And yeah.

25:22 Yeah. But Touring that City was cool because we'd been the cat was as we toured a little bit of that and we went the wrong way and got a little scared and you know, got dark and when the original one, remember that. Which one when we don't were 10 years old, we walked down and the guy goes out the door and take a left, and we went out and took a right. And there's, you know, Quito is not a friendly Place certain sections in the late night basically after dark westerns westerners who are really good at listening to directions, you know. And then and then the well who's left was it? I don't know. Anyway, we went to Guayaquil and that we was just Like we just walked out the front door said where should we go? The guy gives the map.

26:08 We just start walking around the city. This guy James. We didn't say we didn't ask him is dangerous but we went, we went all the way to the end. We walk the Waterfront. It was just, I was like this is a really cool place, we came all the way back in and then Carlos who lives there says, oh my God, you guys didn't get robbed because we and we were the only we stood out. Yeah. Yeah, it was like there's even two and a half mile long, like mall, like on the waterfront. There's like any other Wars and that was interesting. I don't know who's sick a straight. I've never seen that before and just the mall. Yeah, goes on. And on. And on for City Block. Very, very cool.

26:48 Yeah. And now that was a really great time. That's fantastic time. I don't know if I ever need to go back to the Galapagos necessarily but we will be seeing Carlos, hit some points Ecuador. Yeah, we'll be meeting him saw more iguanas on the first trip. I think we just saw piles of them. Yeah food was better on the second trip. We had we had things here and there and it's kind of cool to be able to say and look at things and go to him again. I would say that you know, I'm with you I'm pretty much there and I think we're coming to the end of the episode here. This is our big try. I really like this. This is I like this this could this is going to be neat because this is what we this is what we've been trying to do for months is to actually get it to where we could videotape it and do it.

27:34 Remotely, because as we said you're going up in Flames our first real attempt. Yeah doing that, but I think it was just you know, that's why I'm going to have to do make up to you but please contact us on the Instagram a record of my father and on the website record of my pie would I was going to say ask questions, right? Yeah. I want to I want to honor, you know, you got to read emails. We got our stuff like that. There's actually a place that you can ask you can follow us will you? Which will send links to you when you're doing it. Share it with your friends. No. Share with your enemies screw that or if you don't want to do any of that, just don't do it. That's fine.

28:14 Yeah, yeah, if you do, we won't get. We won't pay anything when he more constructive criticism. That's what we need. We do. That's what we're looking for. Is more dirty bastard. Yeah. But we got to be more aggressive and, you know, as time goes on but as you said, I mean, the reason we did this originally is to, you know, get a to me, I get closer to you and if anybody gets to see if this is Something that works for them that they can copy, you know? Hey it is what it ain't until it is not and they where you go to this.